I was fiddling around with File::Find and was finally able to get what I wanted using strict and warnings but am not sure if my methods are sound. If there are better ways to do the same thing, I'd like to learn.

I created a generalized sub in order to make repeated searches with different arguments, as it doesn't make sense to create separate wanted subs for each search.

The parts I'm particularly suspicious about are:

• the use of our (which gave warnings when I used my)
• the use of the push function within sub wanted.
• scoping of sub wanted within sub Search_File

Also, I would like to learn a little about the statement:

   *name = *File::Find::name;
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if someone could direct me what to look it up under. Thanks for your time.

use strict;

my @found_files = Search_File('c:/Documents and Settings','udefdown.lo
+g');
foreach (@found_files) {
   print "found: '$_'\n";
}

sub Search_File {
   use File::Find ();
   # for the convenience of &wanted calls, including -eval statements:
   use vars qw/*name/;
   *name   = *File::Find::name;
   our ($start_path, $search_name) = @_;
   our @matching_files = ();
   if ($search_name) {
      # Traverse desired filesystems
      File::Find::find({wanted => \&wanted}, $start_path);
   }
   return @matching_files;
   
   sub wanted {
      /^$search_name\z/si &&
      push(@matching_files, $name);
   }
}
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